To some extent, that fumbling may have resulted from the shock of the election's outcome, though it no doubt also reflected the contradictions internal to the Democratic coalition: House Democrats include boll weevils and pure corporate stooges as well as more conventionally New Deal liberal types.

Like his five-year-old daughter, who is slowly poisoned by the arsenic she uses to dust the cotton crop in order to protect it from boll weevils, he is gradually victimized by a uniquely Southern system of segregation and sharecropping which infects his life.

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